Bridge Seating (another footnote)

[Ric Brekne]

Hi Jonathan, David A.

Yes, the increased mass does create more impedance and at some point it 
will begin to drain from volume no doubt... sustain in each of the cases 
I've had this past week noticeably increased.  However... the motivation 
for the checking all this out was to see the affect on false beats.  The 
changes in sustain and volume are expected as per the many discussions 
about mass tuning the treble bridge.

I found it significant that attachment of the vice grips affected false 
beats when the vice grips were attached to places other then the front 
bridge pin of the offending string. 

Cheers
RicB

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I would imagine with increased mass, you would have more impedance, and
therefore perhaps less volume (at attack), and increased sustain?  In
other words, slower release of the energy into the soundboard?

Jonathan Finger